Exclude file from jar as built by jar-with-dependencies

Question

My pom.xml contains the following to create a jar of my project with all dependencies.
Now I have a properties file in src/main/resources which is necessary to run the application (and I want to use it from starting from the IDE), but I do not want to ship it in the created jar file, as the settings are maintained separately.

Question: How I can I get a file with all dependencies, but exclude those properties files?

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>make-jar</id>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>single</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <archive>
                    <manifest>
                        <mainClass>x.Main</mainClass>
                    </manifest>
                </archive>
                <descriptorRefs>
                    <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
                </descriptorRefs>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

Answer 1

If you want to stick with maven-assembly-plugin you can use an assembly descriptor file where you configure your filters, like in this section:

<fileSets>
<fileSet>
  <directory>${basedir}</directory>
  <includes>
    <include>*.txt</include>
  </includes>
  <excludes>
    <exclude>*.properties/exclude>
  </excludes>
</fileSet>

And in your maven configuration, pom.xml you specify the assemblu descriptor file, in the descriptors tag (distribution.xml is a file containing the section from above)

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.6</version>
    <configuration>
      <filters>
        <filter>src/assembly/filter.properties</filter>
      </filters>
      <descriptors>
        <descriptor>src/assembly/distribution.xml</descriptor>
      </descriptors>
    </configuration>
  </plugin>

Also check this link maven-assembly